#frustrated composer

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When you get overwhelmingly good responses to a piece you ghost wrote (and can never take credit for)

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When a potential client asks if you’ll be available to write music for them in a few years when their project is completed:

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When you try to introduce yourself to another composer or instrumentalist after a performance, and they look at you like you just tried to sell them a magazine subscription:

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Attempting to start a new piece with no external deadline motivating you:

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When you show someone a piece you like and their only assessment is, "Wow, you can totally hear their influences".

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"How does Indian music work?"

[frustratedcomposer]

When there's a huge building-wide party organized by the first floor tenants (complete with booty shaking music) and I realize I'm happily sitting in my room searching for various countertenor performances of a piece by Purcell:

This was the moment I realized I'm old and curmudgeonly at heart.

[frustratedcomposer]

When you're a running a rehearsal for a piece and realize you forgot to put one or more of the parts in the correct transposition: